Abstract
This attractive and easy-to-navigate Web site, one of five Northern Illinois University digitization projects, invites users to explore the history of Illinois during the Gilded Age. Funded by a small grant of $30,000 from the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the site accesses sources from the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Illinois State Library. While only 287 primary sources are currently available for viewing, new sources are being added all the time, and the project director, Drew E. VandeCreek, estimates that the number should at least double by the end of 2006. The site is divided into three major parts: historical themes, a narrative of key events, and a “teacher's parlor”; there is also a relatively undeveloped “cultural tourism” section. Each historical theme is divided into a short interpretive history, a bibliography of secondary sources, videos of historians, notably Maureen Flanagan, James Gilbert, and Michael Kazin, and...
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